Anthropods [sic]

[Jonathan Lighter]

Blend or malapropism, it means bugs believed to hatch from your living flesh :

  A TV news report not for the squeamish:
  http://www1.wsvn.com/features/articles/investigations/MI39689/

  This condition, believed by sufferers to be organic, has been dubbed "Morgellons disease" after a suggestive reference in the works of Sir Thomas Browne.  Those who believe otherwise describe it as "delusional parasitosis."

  The statement by the Miami-Dade Health Department is notably noncommittal.

  JL







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